Petitioners fined Rs Rs 10,000 for submitting frivolous PIL by Orisaa HC
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CUTTACK: The Orissa High Court on Friday imposed a advantageous of Rs 10,000 on Ramachandra Behera and two others for submitting a ‘frivolous public interest litigation’ looking for its intervention to cease a water provide venture work because it was allegedly being carried out on the premises of a faculty at Govindpur in Cuttack district.
While imposing the penalty,Acting Chief Justice BR Sarangi and Justice MS Raman stated,”As such, the petitioners try to cease the developmental work of the state. Therefore, this courtroom just isn’t inclined to entertain such sort of frivolous public curiosity litigation, by which developmental work of the state is meant to be stopped”. The petitioners claiming to be residents of close by Choupada village alleged the venture work is inflicting difficulties to the scholars of the varsity.
The Bench, upon going by the data discovered that the petitioners claiming to be guardians of the scholars had acknowledged they got here to know {that a} contractor is finishing up the venture below Jal Jeevan Mission inside supervision of Rural Water & Sanitation Division, Odisha on the premises of the varsity.
The petitioners had produced a file of rights (ROR) however nothing was discovered from it to help the competition raised by them that the venture work is being undertaken inside the faculty premises. The Bench held the petition just isn’t entertainable as it’s based mostly on mere coming to the data of the petitioners that the venture work is happening to the inconvenience of the scholars.
“Accordingly, the petition stands dismissed with a cost of Rs 10,000, which shall be deposited in the Advocate Welfare’s Fund of the High Court Bar Association within seven days, failing which the amount shall be recovered by initiating Orissa Public Demand Recovery proceeding against the petitioners”, the Bench acknowledged.
CUTTACK: The Orissa High Court on Friday imposed a advantageous of Rs 10,000 on Ramachandra Behera and two others for submitting a ‘frivolous public interest litigation’ looking for its intervention to cease a water provide venture work because it was allegedly being carried out on the premises of a faculty at Govindpur in Cuttack district.
While imposing the penalty,Acting Chief Justice BR Sarangi and Justice MS Raman stated,”As such, the petitioners try to cease the developmental work of the state. Therefore, this courtroom just isn’t inclined to entertain such sort of frivolous public curiosity litigation, by which developmental work of the state is meant to be stopped”. The petitioners claiming to be residents of close by Choupada village alleged the venture work is inflicting difficulties to the scholars of the varsity.
The Bench, upon going by the data discovered that the petitioners claiming to be guardians of the scholars had acknowledged they got here to know {that a} contractor is finishing up the venture below Jal Jeevan Mission inside supervision of Rural Water & Sanitation Division, Odisha on the premises of the varsity.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
The petitioners had produced a file of rights (ROR) however nothing was discovered from it to help the competition raised by them that the venture work is being undertaken inside the faculty premises. The Bench held the petition just isn’t entertainable as it’s based mostly on mere coming to the data of the petitioners that the venture work is happening to the inconvenience of the scholars.
“Accordingly, the petition stands dismissed with a cost of Rs 10,000, which shall be deposited in the Advocate Welfare’s Fund of the High Court Bar Association within seven days, failing which the amount shall be recovered by initiating Orissa Public Demand Recovery proceeding against the petitioners”, the Bench acknowledged.
